Heaven-on-earth wedding for Eve Myles with only one guest - her little daughter

The Torchwood star says the ceremony in Italy to husband Bradley Freegard was a dream come true

Actress Eve Myles has revealed that her Italian wedding was so exclusive, it only had one guest – her three-year-old daughter Matilda!

The Tuscany wedding last month saw Eve marry her partner of 15 years – fellow actor Bradley Freegard from Pontypridd – in a majestic Italian ceremony.

The wedding was a long-time coming for Eve and Bradley, who first met in the National Youth Theatre during the 1990s. The Torchwood star said their busy professional life got in the way in the past.

“It was heaven on earth,” the Ystradgynlais-born actress told WalesOnline.

“I’d put my wedding off three times because of work commitments. This time I said we’re not putting it off this time, we’re getting married this year.”

In a dress designed by Jenny Packham – who counts the Duchess of Cambridge and Angelina Jolie amongst her clients – the couple exchanged traditional Italian wedding vows followed by an intimate family meal in what Eve described as the “most beautiful room I have ever been in.”

“It was in the most beautiful villa, we sat on a big wedding table, with crystal chandeliers above us and we had our own waiter. Matilda was just happily running around. It was an amazing day.

“And the day after we just visited Florence and Sienna eating pizza and drinking cold beer. Italy is an amazing country.”

It’s a fairytale end to a romance which took its time getting off the ground.

Eve revealed, tongue firmly in cheek: “I couldn’t get rid of him, and then he became part of the furniture. He would knock on my dorm-room door all the time with Champagne and glasses he’d pinched from his mother’s house.

“Then one day I realised he was rather handsome!”

Eve Myles and Bradley Freegard

Now she couldn’t be anymore certain about her love for her husband as she revealed that married life does feel special.

“It does feel different from before, it’s a nice warm feeling,” she said.

“It is nice for Matilda to to know that her mum and dad are married. We are all Myles-Freegards now.”

Eve has certainly had a hectic couple of years with filming the last series of Torchwood in Hollywood, spending six months in the West End in Zach Braff’s play All New People and another chunk of the year filming her most recent role as a district nurse in BBC One’s Frankie.

The popular drama comes to an end on Tuesday, which is a “massive episode” according to Eve, who is also famed for her roles in Belonging and Baker Boys.

“The series has been fantastic to make and the final episode is going to be an event in our house,” she said.

“Writer Lucy Gannon is brilliant. It’s a small crew, small cast but it has a massive heart.

“I can’t believe the series has gone so quickly. We’ll know definitely in two weeks whether we’ll have a second series or not, but the response I’ve had from this one is unbelievable.

“People connect with it because it’s about families and in people’s homes, not just about the patients.

“I can’t tell you how many messages, tweets I’ve received. People have come up to me in the street and said Frankie has inspired them or their daughters to go into nursing.”

Despite having a few possible projects in the pipeline, Eve is keeping her cards close to her chest as she has not signed up to anything yet. In two weeks she jets off to Australia for the first time to meet Torchwood fans at a signing session. “They are mad about it over there, it’s absolutely massive and still on the television. I’ve been offered to go out there twice now but have had to turn it down for work.”

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